u/BonelessAir41

Heyo, I just picked up the game and I am having a fun time with it so far. I mainly have two questions as of now that I did not see any answers to. 1: Do ores respawn over time or did I just miss the game telling me how to easily locate more (I have found 1 cave so far for iron and ran for what felt like 10hrs without finding another). 2: If I load my open-world character into the "missions" option for gameplay, would that character be deleted if I die on said missions?